Meaning of sort | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A general type.
2. Manner, way; form of being or acting.
   archaic
3. In a haphazard or imperfect way: managed to paint the chair after a sort.
4. Condition above the vulgar; rank.
   obsolete
5. Somewhat; rather: "Gambling and prostitution ... have been prohibited, but only sort of" (George F. Will).
6. A person evaluated in a certain way.
   informal
7. A class that is defined by the common attribute or attributes possessed by all its members:breed, cast, description, feather, ilk, kind, lot, manner, mold, nature, order, species, stamp, stripe, type, variety.
8. Group, company.
   obsolete
9. a class, type or kind. I like all sorts of books; She was wearing a sort of crown. tipe نَوْع، طَبَقَه вид tipo druh die Art slags είδοςclase, tipo, género sort, liik, laad طبقه؛ گونه laji sorteסוג किस्म, प्रकार vrsta, sorta fajta jenis tegund sorta, tipo 種類 종류 rūšis veids; šķirne; suga jenis soorttype, slags, sort, artrodzaj طبقه tipo fel вид; род; сорт druh vrsta vrsta sort, slag, typ ชนิด; ประเภท; แบบ tür 種類 рід; сорт; тип قسم، نوع loại, thứ, hạng 种类
10. A good-looking woman.
    Australia, British, informal
11. to separate into classes or groups, putting each item in its place. She sorted the buttons into large ones and small ones. sorteer يُصَنِّف сортирам separar třídit sortieren sortere ξεχωρίζω, ταξινομώclasificar sort(eer)ima طبقه بندي كردن lajitella trier לְמַייֵן सुव्यवस्थित करना, छांटना, निबेड़ना razvrstati, sortirati szortíroz memilah flokka, sortera ordinare, classificare, smistare より分ける 분류하다 skirstyti šķirot mengasingkan sorterensortereporządkować طبقه بندی کول separar a sorta; a tria раз...
12. An act of sorting.
13. a person or machine that separates and arranges, especially letters, postcards etc. sorteermasjien آلَة تَصْنيف сортировач separador třídič(ka) der/die Sortierer(in) sorterer; sortérmaskine διαλογέας separador sort(eer)imismasin lajittelija trieur, trieuse מְמַיֵן छांटने वाला razvrstavalac, odabirač szortírozó pemilah flokkunarmaður/-vél classificatore, selezionatore; (chi smista lettere) 分類する人 선별기, 분류기 skirstytojas šķirotājs pengisih sorteerder, sorteermachinesorterer sortownik, sorter تنظيم...
    especially
14. An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
15. of a (usually poor) kind. She threw together a meal of sorts but we were still hungry afterwards. tipe من نَوْعٍ ما някакъв си sofrível jakýs takýs so etwas wie af en slags δήθεν, μόνο στο όνομα una especie de -taoline, -kas همه جوره jonkinlainen quelconque מִסוּג बहुत साधारण nekakav, sumnjiv vmiféle semacam eins konar; frekar lélegur mediocre, おそまつな (~)류의 šioks toks šāds tāds; tāds kā yang tidak bagus een of anderet slagsniby, w pewnym sensie, byle jaki کت مت sofrível un fel de кое-какой urč...
    usually
16. A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
17. rather; in a way; to a certain extent. He was sort of peculiar!; I feel sort of worried about him. nogal نوعا ما، الى حَدٍّ ما до известна степен um tanto poněkud etwas ligesom; på en måde κάπως, κατά κάποιο τρόπο en cierto modo veidi, kuidagi تا اندازه اي tavallaan plutôt סוּג שֶׁל कुछ हद तक, कुछ अंश तक nekako valahogy agak hálf-, hálfpartinn tipo, un po' なんとなく 다소 kažkaip, lyg ir zināmā mērā agak een beetjelitt, på en måte, til en viss gradraczej, trochę په انازه کی um tanto mai degrabă дово...
18. A type.
19. A group of persons or things of the same general character; a kind. See Usage Note at kind2.
20. Fate, fortune, destiny.
    obsolete
21. Character or nature: books of a subversive sort.
22. Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.
    obsolete
23. A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.”

““[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.[…]””

“The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.”

“Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.”

“Soon as the term of those six years shall cease, Ye then shall hither back return again, The marriage to accomplish vow’d betwixt you twain. Which for my part, I covet to perform, In sort as through the world I did proclaim, That whoso kill’d that monster (most deform) And him in hardy battle overcame, Should have mine only daughter to his Dame […]”

“Such is that argument whereby they that wore on their heads garlands are charged as transgressors of nature’s law, and guilty of sacrilege against God the Lord of nature, inasmuch as flowers, in such sort worn can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them; and God made flowers sweet and beautiful, that being seen and smelt unto, they might so delight.”

“I’ll deceive you in another sort”

“But to Adam in what sort Shall I appeer? shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to partake Full happiness with mee, or rather not, But keep the odds of Knowledge within my power Without copartner?”

“I acknowledge, with Segrais, that I have not succeeded in this attempt, according to my desire: yet I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I may be allow’d to have copied the Clearness, the Purity, the Easiness and the Magnificence of his stile.”

“Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.”

“With the might of that throw Goldry’s wrath departed from him and left him strengthless, in such sort that he reeled as he went from the wrastling ground.”

““What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this soldier keep his oath?” “He is a craven and a villain else, an’t please your majesty, in my conscience.” “It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.” “Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath.””

“good sort, bad sort”

“There is no problem with this and he seems to be a decent sort with very good reflexes. I will have Felix replaced with him when we get back to Washington because he is more acceptable.”

“Amo, he is the prince. And he is a good sort. You, My Husband, should be among his circle”

“One doesn't need to be Einstein to realize he is a bad sort / My wife always said as much.”

“a sort of shepherds suing of the Chace”

“a sort of doves were housed too near their hall”

“What good got you by wearing out your feet, To run on scurvy errands to the poor, and to bear mony to a sort of rogues And lousy prisoners?”

“A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, Vowed against his voyage, yet admit it thus!”

“I had a sort of my cupboard.”

“Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.”

“The fastest general algorithm we have considered that sorts keys in a stable manner is the list merge sort, but it does not use minimum storage”

“Green managed to recover a total of 151 sorts (the name for individual pieces of type) out of a possible 500,000.”

“For he is groſſe and like the maſſie earth, That mooues not vpwards, nor by princely deeds Doth meane to ſoare aboue the highest ſort.”

“No, make a lottery; And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector.”

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